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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983
Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification.
Documenting Performance
The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.
March
Documents the large scale, public art event March of Women spilling out onto the streets of Bridgeton on the eve of International Women’s Day 2015.
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants & inventors whose obsessions changed the world
Celebrating curiosity and adventure, the book explores the obsessions, achievements and failures of lesser-known but utterly remarkable individuals who exemplify the human spirit through their stories of invention, trickery, subversion and survival.
Art AIDS America
The first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum (October 2015 – January 2016)
Glasgow’s Review of International Performance
Reflects, through a celebratory and playful lens, on the seminal moments of contemporary international performance that have visited the city from the late 1980s until 2016, a year from when the Arches closed.
Staging an Exilic Autobiography: On the pleasures and frustrations of repetitions and returns
Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.
LADA Annual Review 2014/15
A publication highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that LADA produced over the course of 12 months in 2014/15.
Early video works
Includes: Foreign Sky, Beast of Me, Still Hear the Wound
Catalogued with a spanned DVD.
Kwangjoo is Impeaching
The video juxtaposes the various form of mediation from one historical event – the 1980 student massacre – according to linear time line. The public memory of the incident is formed and moulded with mediated images and languages.
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